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Title Medicine and medical ethics in Nazi Germany : origins, practices, legacies / edited by Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2002
©2002

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Description vii, 160 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Introduction: Nazi medicine in historiographical context / Francis R. Nicosia and Jonathan Huener -- 1. The ideology of elimination: American and German eugenics, 1900-1945 / Garland E. Allen -- 2. The Nazi campaign against tobacco: science in a totalitarian state / Robert N. Proctor -- 3. Physicians as killers in Nazi Germany: Hadamar, Treblinka and Auschwitz / Henry Friedlander -- 4. Criminal physicians in the Third Reich: toward a group portrait / Michael H. Kater -- 5. Pathology of memory: German medical science and the crimes of the Third Reich / William E. Seidelman -- 6. The legacy of Nazi medicine in context / Michael Burleigh
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-150) and index
Subject Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
Medical ethics -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities.
National socialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human experimentation in medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Medical ethics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Physicians -- Germany -- History.
Physicians -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Author Nicosia, Francis R., 1944- editor
Huener, Jonathan, editor
LC no. 2001037996
ISBN 1571813861 (alkaline paper)
157181387X (paperback) (alkaline paper)